Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation Re: Data, phone, FTA and speaker wiring plans 7Aug 25, 2009 9:16 pm Kodiak Data Cabling onFaceBook Consult*, Design and Installation Data, TV, Home Theatre/ AV Cabling, Multi Room Audio, IP CCTV and Door Intercoms Ask for a Quote. *DIY DATA Cabling Is Ilegal Re: Data, phone, FTA and speaker wiring plans 13Aug 26, 2009 10:19 pm wake_me Hey Kex and Joey, thanks for your input. Kex, you mentioned that you are running pairs of cable to each room and Joey, you mentioned that you wish you had of. It seems a lot of people recommend to run multiple points to each room but i am yet to get a reason why? other than future proofing and phone? I guess that's it more than anything. Furture proofing + to prevent the need to have extra switches in the rooms just for one extra device. What I didn't show in my diagram is the extra switches in the HT and the study. If I had multiple lines, I would have avoided that. 4 points in the games room avoid having an extra switch (with associated power draw) in there. wake_me C'mon everyone there must be something i haven't thought about, i dont want someone to post something next week when its too late. I reckon it's extra power points. I wish I had put a few more in while the electrician was here. How about TV and Cat5 to the outside areas? Garage area? Just being devil's advocate, maybe it will jog your brain for other things. Internet to fridge area? Even if you don't have one, it may improve sale value of the house if you sell it? Re: Data, phone, FTA and speaker wiring plans 14Aug 26, 2009 11:04 pm Quote: How about TV and Cat5 to the outside areas? Garage area? Just being devil's advocate, maybe it will jog your brain for other things. Internet to fridge area? Even if you don't have one, it may improve sale value of the house if you sell it? Thanks again, joey, Its certainly food for thought, i will see how much of the roll is left over once i've run an extra point to the HT room, Its so easy to do now and the cable will just sit around in the garage if it doesn't get used now. So 1 more run of cat6 to fridge and 1 more run of rg6 to the garage and alfresco. (Hopefully i can find a 8 way splitter for the rg6) I've got a truckload of power points, so should be right there. Re: Data, phone, FTA and speaker wiring plans 15Aug 27, 2009 8:33 am I just thought of something I wished for... Have you made provisions for security devices and cameras around the house? Even if you don't wire them in, power and Cat5 to external and maybe internal corners in the house will also add resale value. Re: Data, phone, FTA and speaker wiring plans 16Aug 27, 2009 8:52 am Ok Currently all 4 points in the games have computers connected to them. (one for each of us) my intention was to have 3 computers plugged in and one on wireless and use the spare point as an additional phone point but where I wanted to place the 4th computer I have a problem with the wireless signal. I could have used a switching hub and 2 points but it wasn't much more expensive to get all 4 in and it's a much neater solution. Originally my thought was that the computers in the games area would be a short term thing of only a couple of years but Dh likes the idea of keeping them there for longer so having 4 points instead of the switching hub and 2 points made sense. The "office" is more a library/ music room/ storage room atm but I will also be using it for my work laptop and setup desk space for this. Running 2 points not one is industry standard. It is also a fallback in case one gets damaged. There isn't a lot of difference in price having one or 2 runs of cable done. It also means I can plug a phone line either mains line or voip in and still have a point for computer/media player etc. Scientists have used random matrix theory to demonstrate theoretically that the neutrino mass hierarchy can be explained mathematically. When a substance is fragmented… 21 20803 If you're referring to Eufy homebase, then just put a switch between a datapoint and put the homebase elsewhere near another device in your home unless you want teh… 9 13918 If there have been changes, variations, during construction then the drawings should be revised, the building permit amended and the current, as built drawings given to… 2 4648 |